by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 8, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat— Tribal fighters battling the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for control of the disputed city of Hit in Iraq’s western Anbar province warned on Sunday that they were running critically short of ammunition. “The arms and ammunition that...
by Hamza Mustafa | Dec 4, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad and Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The heads of two prominent Sunni Anbar tribes expressed unease about the prospect of cooperating with the US against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on Wednesday, and repeated calls for the Iraqi government to support them...
by Hamza Mustafa | Nov 24, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The head of the prominent Sunni Dulaim tribe from the country’s western Anbar province has called on the Iraqi government to “make good on its promises” to tribesmen in the province fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), amid a...
by Hamza Mustafa | Nov 5, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is practicing a “policy of genocide” against the Anbar province’s Albunimr tribe, taking “indiscriminate revenge” on its members, many of whom have participated in the Awakening movements fighting the...
